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by Mitchell Crooks
Wednesday, Feb. 04, 2004 at 3:09 PM
Denise For District Attorney
P.O. Box 433 Torrance CA 90508-0433 (818) 769.2035 Fax: (310) 618.1950
E-mail: 76170.1423@compuserve.com
For Immediate Release: January 30, 2004
For Information: Denise Moehlman (310) 562.3654 Jan Tucker (310) 618.9596
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CANDIDATE SAYS COOLEY BOTCHED POLICE MISCONDUCT CASE
Describing the 6-6 hung jury vote that resulted in a second mistrial over charges of police brutality leveled against former Inglewood Police Officer Jeremy Morse as "the latest in a series of missteps which demonstrate that Cooley cannot hold a major case together," 15 year veteran prosecutor Denise Moehlman said that "the mishandling of this case from the outset underscores why Steve Cooley needs to be replaced as District Attorney." Moehlman, a deputy district attorney at the Airport courthouse where Morse has been prosecuted, is running in the March 2, 2004 primary election to replace Cooley.
"Whether you are a prosecutor or a defense attorney it is elementary that you thoroughly interview expert witnesses before putting them on the witness stand," said Moehlman. "When the District Attorney's office put an expert witness on the stand in the first trial without knowing that he would testify that in his own opinion, the defendant hadn't committed a crime, is just short of unbelievable. It guaranteed that no matter what happened in any subsequent prosecution, the defense had been handed a gratuitous advantage."
Moehlman has pledged throughout her campaign to make prosecution of police misconduct a priority of her administration. She has also attacked Cooley's office for failing to prosecute numerous LAPD "Rampart corruption cases" within the statute of limitations, letting many bad officers remain unpunished.
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